Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weeks of energetic politicking behind him, Lucius Amerson sat in a Tuskegee office on election day fidgeting over the latest returns. At 8:15 p.m., a young campaign worker hung up the phone and exultantly pounded a fist on the table. "You won!" the youth cried. "You won!" Amerson leaned back and laughed with relief. By a 387-vote margin, the stocky ex-postal clerk had be come the first Alabama Negro to win a Democratic nomination for sheriff since the misty days of Reconstruction...
...bottom." Said Happy: "Oh well, then I won't worry about it." After five interminable minutes, the doors opened and Nelson, Happy and eight other passengers climbed out. "Hey," gawked a workman, "it's the Governor." "Hey, Governor!" shouted another, holding out a house phone, "say hello to Artie Menkler. He's the one who got you out." Rocky took the phone. "Thanks, Artie," he said. "We were just trying to reach the Governor of Michigan...
...Very Glad." Lyndon Johnson did not get right on the phone to Gary's draft board. The letter, like the 350 other personal draft pleas that arrive each month at the White House, went to selective-service headquarters in Washington, then to California draft authorities. Hearing no word from anyone, Gary Wilson glumly packed his bags on Jan. 31, planned a farewell party, and prepared to report at 7:30 a.m. the next day to the Los Angeles induction center. But with nice nick-of-timing, the draft board phoned at 5:30 p.m. Gary William Wilson had been...
They answered by the uncounted thousands. Phone wires were suddenly cut and roads blockaded all over the kingdom. Shooting broke out in Kampala, and bands of wild-eyed Baganda, shouting war cries and waving machetes, overturned buses and trucks at major intersections. Up the broad avenue to King Freddy's palace marched hundreds of men and women-some with babies strapped to their backs-setting gasoline fires in front of the troops who tried to stop them...
Among Friends. Eurodollars are handled by about 500 banks in Europe, a few informal phone calls among banking friends usually being enough to settle a major deal. There is often a relay of three or four banks between lender and borrower, which is one cause of criticism of the system. Another complaint is that Eurodollar operators violate a cardinal banking rule by borrowing short term and lending long term, but in fact E$ are mostly used for short-term financing of imports and exports. The Deutsche Bank Managing Director Hermann Abs dislikes the system so much that he will have...